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23 savoury and sweet salad dressing recipes

• Apple Mustard Dressing Apple juice concentrate is stronger flavoured than apple juice so it gives lots of taste without diluting the dressing. Vegetable stock is a useful ingredient when you're trying to eliminate or reduce oil.

• Garlic Dill Ranch Dressing Mix A gift from the kitchen is a creative and delicious way of showing love to friends and family. Use this mix as a base for a crowd-pleasing dressing, or combine it with softened cream cheese for a dip. Expect to get rave reviews.

• Goat Cheese Salad Dressing The unique, tangy flavour of goat cheese is lovely with chilled asparagus or green beans, or with a spinach salad with garlicky croutons. If you can't find fines herbs goat cheese, use 1/4 tsp (1 mL) dried fines herbs and regular goat cheese. If made ahead of time, the dressing thickens and turns into a great dip.

• Orange Poppy Seed Dressing Fresh, light and tangy with zesty orange, this dressing is enough to coat 15 cups (3.75 L) of mixed greens, perfect for eight people. Use a combination of spinach and Boston and leaf lettuces, then accent both the colour and dressing with a sliced orange.

• Oregano Dressing Carry the partially prepared dressing to the cottage in a plastic jar. Before tossing with your choice of fresh greens or chilled pasta, add sun-dried tomatoes, if you wish, and oregano.

• Tomato Pesto Dressing This dark, rich-tasting but lightened-up dressing is delicious drizzled on cold or warm cooked green beans or even a grilled chicken breast, hamburger or fish fillet.

• Yogurt Curry Dressing Toss this mildly spicy dressing with grated carrots, coleslaw mix or broccoli slaw. Or mix it with shrimp and stuff into avocado halves. We use 2% yogurt because 1% and no-fat varieties tend to be watery.